- [Instructor] Another important part of the user interface,…or your workspace, you should be aware of are the number…of visual guides you can turn on or off…to help you with aligning objects, sizing them,…placing them on your page, and maintaining consistency…throughout your document.…The visual guides can appear by default,…but there are a number of additional guides to help you…that we're going to explore in this movie.…We're going to do it with a file…you'll find in your exercise files.…Let's go to the Open button on the toolbar,…and navigate to the 01_04 sub folder…of your Chapter 1 folder of your exercise files,…there's a file in there called MF_LibraryTable.…

Notice the extension FM, it's a FrameMaker file.…With it selected, we'll click open, and right off the bat…you can see there are some visual aids, for example,…the dotted line that goes around our text box…containing our Chapter 3 title.…You'll also see as we scroll down a dotted line…going around the outside of the text box down below,…and you can see how they're lined up perfectly…

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5/18/2017

Adobe FrameMaker—a documentation tool for authoring and publishing technical content—can help make the task of generating complex documents a bit easier. In this course, learn how to get started with the 2017 release of this popular software. David Rivers explains how to add and format text, customize page layouts to suit your needs, and work with colors, character formats, and graphics. He also covers editing documents, working with tables, using footnotes and cross-references, generating books and indexes, and using conditional text and hyperlinks.